With the caucus/primary season coming up, we spent this week talking about politics! As you probably expect, the three of us are fairly progressive so much of our conversation centers around the Hilary Clinton/Bernie Sanders camps. There is actually a fair amount of disagreement there. We do spend a little bit of time talking about our reasons for rejecting the Republican party and it has a lot to do with our non-religious roots. So if you are a conservative listener – that’s cool. But you might want to check back in with us next week.

I really enjoyed the episode today. Here’s the but! Texas (and the other states) aren’t challenging the President’s ability to do executive orders. In fact, the administration petitioned the Court for clarification about what the President’s discretion would be regarding issuing an executive order around the laws that Congress enacted regarding immigration. In every statutory scheme, there is usually discretion for the President to act and issue executive orders. Sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it isn’t, and sometimes challenging it is just a political move to waste all our time. Here’s a link to the SCOTUSblog rundown: